The Rational Unified Process: An Introduction (3rd Edition)

WORKERS AND ARTIFACTS

The Rational Unified Process expresses the analysis and design process in terms of workers, artifacts, activities, and workflow. Figure 10-1 shows the workers and artifacts involved. The main workers involved in analysis and design are the following:

• Architect

  The Architect leads and coordinates technical activities and artifacts throughout the project. He or she establishes the overall structure for the interfaces between the major groupings. In contrast with the views of the other workers, the architect's view is one of breadth rather than depth. See Chapter 5, An Architecture-centric Process.

• Designer

  The Designer defines the responsibilities, operations, attributes, and relationships of one or several classes and determines how they should be adjusted to the implementation environment. In addition, the designer may have responsibility for one or more design packages or design subsystems, including any classes owned by the packages or subsystems.

Analysis and design can optionally include the following workers:

• Database Designer:  

  The Database Designer is needed when the system being designed includes a database.

• Capsule Designer (for real-time systems):  

  The Capsule Designer is a kind of designer who focuses on ensuring that the system is able to respond to events in a timely manner, through appropriate use of concurrent design techniques.

• Architecture Reviewer and Design Reviewer:  

  These specialists review the key artifacts produced through this workflow.

The key artifacts of analysis and design are as follows :

• The Design Model, which is the major blueprint for the system under construction

• The Software Architecture Document, which captures various architectural views of the system